Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said it is important for both sides in the public sector pay stand off to get into negotiations and that he believed there was a negotiated pathway to a resolution.
Former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson is due to be sentenced for the rape and sexual assault of a schoolgirl and the sexual assault of a second young girl.
Universities are to tell an Oireachtas committee that they are at capacity and teetering on a cliff-edge unless the Government addresses a funding gap in higher education.